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• Do We Diagnose Too Much Normal Distress?

  01-11-2026 18:00 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A relationship ends, and she cannot sleep.
  A parent dies, and his appetite disappears.
  She loses her job and spends weeks feeling anxious and struggling to concentrate.
  Some of these patients will arrive in our offices. They...
  
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• Investigating RFK Jr., Fixing Surprise Billing Law May Be on Agenda for New Congress

  04-11-2026 23:39 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Changes to laws on surprise billing and price transparency as well as investigations of HHS officials could be on the menu when the Democratic-controlled Congress assumes office next year, analysts say.
  "We're heartened to see...
  
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• Voters Back Abortion Rights and Transgender Restrictions in Some States

  04-11-2026 23:05 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Abortion-rights advocates notched victories in several states Tuesday, and voters in some states backed transgender restrictions as they decided 145 ballot questions in more than three dozen states.
  The ballot measures provided...
  
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• Is It Over for DAPT After Left Atrial Appendage Closure?

  04-11-2026 23:02 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Antithrombotic monotherapy was similar to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for 6-month outcomes after left atrial appendage (LAA) closure, the SIMPLAAFY trial showed.
  The incidence rate of combined all-cause death, stroke, systemic...
  
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• A Pediatrician, a Pastor, and a Paralympian Just Did Wonders for Kids’ Mental Health

  04-11-2026 22:45 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- My son is 32. Early Wednesday morning he forwarded me a New York Times story about the new faces Tuesday's midterm elections sent to Washington and to statehouses.
  He added a note: "Some themes for your next article, like the...
  
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• Brain Health Linked With Longer Lifetime Estrogen Exposure

  04-11-2026 22:07 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Women with higher lifetime estrogen exposure had less cerebrovascular pathology, a cohort study in Sweden showed.
  A longer reproductive span was associated with 8% lower odds of having two or more signs of cerebral small vessel...
  
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• CD38-Targeted Immuno-PET Tracer Can Detect Overlooked Multiple Myeloma

  04-11-2026 21:40 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A novel CD38-targeted immuno-PET tracer could help detect multiple myeloma in some patients with no signs of disease, according to results from a phase II trial.
  While there was no overall difference in disease detection with...
  
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• Why Are Medical Students Learning About Physician Unions?

  04-11-2026 20:45 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Medical students are taught how poverty, access to care, and other systemic factors affect patients' health, but many struggle with a fundamental question: What can one physician realistically do about problems that extend far...
  
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• Cancer Vaccines Show Promise. But We Have More Work to Do.

  04-11-2026 20:04 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The controversy surrounding the premature disclosure of Moderna and Merck's mRNA melanoma vaccine results risks overshadowing a more consequential clinical discussion: how individualized cancer vaccines might fit into an increasingly...
  
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• Abdakibart Shows Strong Early Efficacy in Hidradenitis Suppurativa

  04-11-2026 19:46 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Phase II findings presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology meeting in Vienna showed promising early efficacy with abdakibart, an investigational interleukin (IL)-1 beta inhibitor, in patients with hidradenitis...
  
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• Pascal Tricuspid TEER Handed Soft Victory in 'Hamstrung' CLASP II TR Trial

  04-11-2026 19:26 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The Pascal Precision transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system eked out a win in symptomatic severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in its pivotal randomized trial.
  In CLASP II TR, there was significant clinical improvement...
  
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• Shorter Days and Dark Afternoons Can Trigger Depression

  04-11-2026 18:52 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- As winter approaches and daylight hours grow shorter, people prone to seasonal depression can feel it in their bodies and brains.
  The millions of people estimated to have seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, typically have episodes...
  
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• PubMed Pauses Major Journal; CDC Alert Blocked; DOGE Chief's Spouse Hired at HHS

  04-11-2026 18:47 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The National Library of Medicine has stopped indexing articles from Scientific Reports in Medline while the journal is under review. Articles from the publication will not appear in PubMed during the pause. (Retraction Watch...
  
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• CVS Health to break up $102bn healthcare empire

  04-11-2026 18:20 via Healthcare
  Spin-off of roughly 9,000 drugstores comes as political pressure mounts on pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers
  
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• Darolutamide Improves Metastasis-Free Survival in Very High-Risk Prostate Cancer

  04-11-2026 17:25 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding darolutamide (Nubeqa) to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiation therapy significantly improved metastasis-free survival in patients with very high-risk prostate cancer, according to findings from the phase III...
  
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• Biden's Cancer Update; Big Election Night for Doctors; Blood Bank Cyberattack

  04-11-2026 15:38 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer treatment has been "painful and incredibly taxing," said his son, Hunter Biden. (Newsweek)
  In other politician health...
  
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• CVS Health to break up $117bn healthcare empire

  04-11-2026 13:46 via Healthcare
  Spin-off of roughly 9,000 pharmacies comes as political pressure mounts on pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers
  
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• CVS Health moves to dismantle $117bn healthcare empire

  03-11-2026 23:33 via Healthcare
  Potential spin-off of drugstore business comes as political pressure mounts on pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers
  
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• Upfront TAVR May Be the Way Forward in Moderate Aortic Stenosis, Trial Suggests

  03-11-2026 23:21 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Upfront transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was more protective against death and heart failure events compared with clinical surveillance among patients with moderate aortic stenosis (AS) with at least one at-risk...
  
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• FDA Panel Largely Pans Trial Data for Myopia Eye Drops

  03-11-2026 22:50 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The regulatory status of a low-dose atropine eye drop formulation for myopia remained unresolved following a day-long FDA advisory committee meeting, but closing comments did not bode well for SYD-101.
  The Dermatologic and Ophthalmic...
  
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• Brain Injury Creates Musical Genius; Long COVID Improvement; Dementia and Delirium

  03-11-2026 20:45 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The New York Times detailed the story of Edward Freytag, whose traumatic brain injury made him a musical genius.
  Bright Minds Biosciences said the FDA placed a partial clinical hold on its investigational drug BMB-101, which...
  
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• Cool Temps and HF; Death After On-Field Collision; Shave and Shake in Stenting

  03-11-2026 20:33 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A large nationwide study found an association between cooler ambient temperature and heart failure (HF) hospitalizations. (JAMA Network Open)
  Energy drinks and stimulant supplements were frequently involved in cases of cardiac...
  
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• What Will the Midterms Mean for Healthcare?

  03-11-2026 18:52 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- In this 43-minute webinar, MedPage Today Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Faust, MD, speaks with Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, about the issues shaping voters' views of healthcare heading into Election...
  
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• De-Escalated Treatment for HPV-Related Throat Cancer Gets Long-Term Supporting Data

  03-11-2026 17:59 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Reduced-intensity treatment for human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) led to durable cancer control in more than 90% of patients, long-term follow-up from a prospective study showed.
  After a median follow...
  
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• Pinch Hitting for the Geriatricians

  03-11-2026 17:19 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- America is growing older, like it or not. And as this happens, we need to find ways to take better care of our older and oldest patients.
  Many elderly patients will live out those years with health and vitality, the path we...
  
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• Generic Lenacapavir Approval for HIV Prevention Raises Hope in Low-Income Nations

  03-11-2026 16:39 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved a generic version of lenacapavir (Yeztugo), the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV--a big step toward making the drug available inexpensively and more quickly in 120 low- and middle-income...
  
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• Voting and Premature Death; Doctors on the Ballot; 'Three-Parent' IVF Tourism

  03-11-2026 15:36 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  An election day reminder: research has linked voting in presidential elections to a lower risk of premature death. (CNN)
  Healthcare is on the ballot today, with...
  
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• Child Dies of Measles in New York's First Such Death in 30 Years

  03-11-2026 15:22 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A child in rural northern New York has died after contracting measles, marking the state's first death from the disease in 30 years, state officials announced Monday.
  The child died in Lewis County, about 93 miles north of Syracuse...
  
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• Their Names Sound Like Legacy Medical Groups. Their Agendas Tell a Different Story.

  03-11-2026 14:53 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Several organizations have sprung up in recent years with names that sound very similar to long-standing established nonprofit public health and medical groups, whose science-based policies have withstood the test of time.
  Here...
  
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• Menopause specialist sold in €2.6bn private equity deal

  03-11-2026 10:45 via Healthcare
  Carlyle and PAI Partners agree to sell women’s health business for almost double what they paid four years ago
  
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